Posted on 01/24/2019 7:57:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Were he writing op-eds today, Tolstoy might point out that all shutdowns are dumb, but that this one is the dumbest.
What makes it so dumb? Do I really need to answer that? Suffice it to say that this Congress, which can’t agree on anything, agreed to appropriate the money needed to avoid a shutdown, until President Trump swooped in at the last minute and blocked the deal, based on pressure from his base to “build the wall.” No one, including Trump, knows what “the wall” is, beyond a campaign slogan.
True, spineless Senate Republicans won’t stand up to Trump on this, but the fact remains: If one stubborn, ill-informed person can shut down the government of the world’s largest economy and keep it that way for more than a month, something very important is very broken. And it’s going to take a lot more than ending the shutdown to fix it.
For now, 800,000 furloughed or unpaid government workers are feeling the direct brunt of this idiocy, but consider that Trump’s chief economist, Kevin Hassett, warned that the shutdown is doing so much damage to the economy that it could mean that the real gross domestic product growth rate this quarter will be zero. As I’ll explain in a moment, I suspect he’s wrong, although quarterly numbers are volatile, so you never know.
But what is Hassett saying here? Is he trying to send his boss a message? Trump explicitly owns the shutdown, so I can’t be the only one having trouble wrapping the aging noggin around his administration complaining about its effect. They could stop it by the time I finish writing this missive! Hassett warning about the shutdown’s effect is like a mugger warning you that if he doesn’t cease and desist, you might get hurt....
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“until President Trump swooped in at the last minute and blocked the deal, based on pressure from his base to “build the wall.” No one, including Trump, knows what “the wall” is, beyond a campaign slogan. “
Any proof of this? If I remember, the President was asking for the 5.7 billion in early December. This was not “last minute” by any means. DNC talking points, AKA lies
More fake news from the Compost posing as a reality!
It will hurt the GDP by some but not a lot.
Webster's.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS point out that when they say “progressive” they mean “socialist”
Every single time, UNTIL IT SINKS INTO PEOPLES’ HEADS!!
Also remind the libtard children indoctrinated from public schools that Hitler was a socialist, and ‘nazi’ is the German term for “national socialist’ party.
What shutdown?
“Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author of ‘The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity’. “
Which translated, simply means he’s just another Secular Progressive Capo who doesn’t know his a$$ from a hole in the ground! Just wonder if he’s as adroit at copping feels off of little girls as his former boss?
What the hell does Tolstoy have to do with anything in this argument?
Why does the Vice President need a chief economist?
The Washington Toast.
Americans are finding out that 800,000 “non-essential” Fed.gov employees are exactly that.
And there is extreme depression, rage and self-doubt in the imperial city of Washington because the Fed.gov workers are also finding out they are useless
Democrats should fund the wall and reopen government... then in 2020, they can stand and front of it and proclaim: “Mr. Trump tear down this wall!”
Justathought.
No one, including Trump, knows what “the wall” is, beyond a campaign slogan.
I’d like you to meet film critic Pauline Kael, who that she couldn’t believe or understand how Richard Nixon won the election, because “no one I know voted for him.”
When Trump got rolled last summer and signed the CR to fund the government he said that was the end of it. He wouldn’t sign another one unless he got wall money.
I am a white uneducated gullible deplorable but I remember it.
“What the hell does Tolstoy have to do with anything in this argument?”
“War, what is it good for....”
Classic Seinfeld-—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqS1Ty79mOE
And that socialist is intended to lead to communist.
Why does the Vice President need a chief economist?
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To pay his bills?
Progressives are the cause of how we got to this point passing the buck again.
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